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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

psychosis

We continued to have many visitors, although they rarely got to see Dennis and I felt like I wasn’t much company, but I think it makes people feel better just to be there. I still couldn’t eat, I didn’t really even think about it.My friends would take me out to dinner and it would take so long I would almost have a panic attack.I got to know OU Medical Center very well and didn’t leave much. I would go out to the pond and read on some slow days, (until the sprinklers came on).I would walk around the gift shop just to try and get my mind on something besides what Dennis and I were facing.I would go to my cousins in the morning between 7:00 and 8:00, during shift change because you couldn’t go into the ICU trauma wing.At her house I would take a shower and relax a minute then go back.Dennis got what is called ICU psychosis, where they mix days and nights up.He wasn’t sleeping and he was talking crazy from all the drugs.I think that was my loneliest time, when he wasn’t talking coherently and I was alone.He had to have surgery where they fused the C 1 and C2 vertebrae.They told us that Dennis had a small spinal column, which was hereditary or it may not have been as bad as it was.But he came through the surgery OK and that was a blessing.

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Cheri and Dennis

About me

I live in rural northwest Oklahoma, I am 50 something! lol, years old and I was married 37 years to a wonderful man. Dennis passed away April 2, 2017. We have one daughter, Whitney and now a son-in-law Nick. They live in Stillwater, Ok. My husband Dennis was a oil field pumper for 26 years, 11 years ago he had a dirt bike accident that left him paralyzed from the upper chest down and had a diaphragmatic pacemaker to help him breath. It changed ours lives forever. I felt like we were the only people in Oklahoma to travel this road and started looking for some caregiving blogs on Spinal cord injuries and didn't have much luck. So I wanted to start one and maybe help some people or listen to people who needed help or just needed to talk. Now I am trying to decide whether to blog or not to blog. I guess I will take it one day at a time.